Monday, April 28, 2014

The Burning Bush Hallucination

The Burning Bush Hallucination

Moses was tripping when he saw the burning bush and received the Ten Commandments, according to Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (Source: Haaretz)
According to Shanon, the patriarch was high on a concoction "based on bark of the acacia tree, that is frequently mentioned in the Bible." There are over a thousand different species of acacia found in southern Asia, Africa and the Americas, and many of them contain psychotropic alkaloids like DMT, a powerful hallucinogen which also occurs naturally in the human brain.

The theory that Moses was under the influence of a psychedelic plant when he spoke to Yahweh isn't all that outlandish. The idea that religions originated with the ritual use of entheogenic plants--psychoactive plants used in religious or shamanic contexts--is nothing new and has been clearly demonstrated in other cultures. The rest of the article......http://www.ancientworldreview.com/2008/03/the-burning-bus.html